Our thanks to William Trousdale, who permitted FIBIS to create this searchable database of the A-Z name index found in his book, The British in Afghanistan, vol I.
Below is a list of the most frequently used abbreviations and acronyms.
Surname
O'Connor
First Names
Dennis
Rank
Lance Corpl
Soldier No
330
Regiment / Department
34th (The Cumberland) Regiment
Medal Rolls
MR5 / MR7
Original Text from book
O'Connor, Lance Corpl. Dennis (330) 34th (The Cumberland) Regt., MR5 [Chr. name and regt. no. unrec.] MR7 (2 refs.) crossed frontier 22 Aug. 1880, employed on Communications and Signalling at Kandahar [MR7 gives 34th (The Cambridgeshire) Regt. in error]
Systematic Compilation of Officers, Other Ranks, Civil Officials, and Other Individuals Present in Afghanistan during The Second Afghan War. Annotated with references to military service, diaries, memoirs, biographies and photographs.
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